More Choices for Chinese Street Riding??

[culcune]

Barnone, I posted a link to this bike from saferwholesale on mychinamoto. Way overpriced, but they took a Dong Fang cruiser bike and slapped on a sidecar. I posted it because you like hacks and it uses the exact same engine in your DF bobber.

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...e-with-sidecar

[dh]

Here is a Nepalese short film based on some guys quest for a new Buccaneer 250. If you can bear to watch all 15 minutes of it you will get see about a minute or so of the actual bike on the road in Nepal. Enjoy!

[dh]

Originally Posted by Barnone

Thanks for the info.
http://www.ssrmotorsports.com/store/...reet-index.php
Prices are about a $1000 too high for a Chinese bike IMHO.

Great point. My Dad has been considering a new 2015 (slow selling) Yamaha Vstar 250 for around the same price.

[2LZ]

Originally Posted by Barnone

Thanks for the info.
http://www.ssrmotorsports.com/store/...reet-index.php
Prices are about a $1000 too high for a Chinese bike IMHO.

They aren't cheap and that may hamper their marketing. One thing for sure though, they're bound to be well built.

[culcune]

Originally Posted by 2LZ

They aren't cheap and that may hamper their marketing. One thing for sure though, they're bound to be well built.

The most well-built, in my opinion, will be the Snake Eyes--it is generally the same bike as the XF250 since it is built by the same OEM as the XF250. The two Bucaneers are OEM'd by someone else, but from what I understand, Qingqi/Pioneer do have a few other subsidiaries so the Bucaneers could be built by one of them. Not sure, and I don't have the patience to track down the who's who of Chinese manufacturers.

[culcune]

Originally Posted by dh

Here is a Nepalese short film based on some guys quest for a new Buccaneer 250. If you can bear to watch all 15 minutes of it you will get see about a minute or so of the actual bike on the road in Nepal. Enjoy!

Worse movie ever saved by a cool bike. That being said, there is a company out of Taiwan who make a Chinese-like enduro bike. The company is called Hartford, and their most recent connection to us is CSC used to use their 150cc vertical single in their Mustang-replica. Anyway, there is a video of some tourist riding the Hartford on some incredibly rocky roads in Nepal going up a mountain, and I think for me, since I am biased towards enduros, I think any kind of enduro would be my dream bike if I was in Nepal.

[Barnone]

Originally Posted by culcune

Barnone, I posted a link to this bike from saferwholesale on mychinamoto. Way overpriced, but they took a Dong Fang cruiser bike and slapped on a sidecar. I posted it because you like hacks and it uses the exact same engine in your DF bobber.

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...e-with-sidecar

Thanks but I thought about putting a sidecar on my DF but it is under powered as a solo so would really be slow with a sidecar attached.
Still waiting for info on the 400cc sidecar.